Kristi Noem shot a puppy for being untrainable as a hunting dog

[Anonymous]

Statute of limitations has likely run but what she did is felony animal abuse in South Dakota.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sad for the dog whose untimely demise is the occasion for all of this mockery of Noem, but what can I say, shouldn't have killed those chickens

Anyway, she's a psycho

Anyone who didn't have a puppy on a leash around chickens shouldn't be around any levers of power/authority.

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I read the story of what actually happened: she had this expensive pure bred dog (and I support people buying responsibly bred dogs! End puppy mills and BYB!) that she failed to train, she took it hunting and it didn’t do what it was supposed to do. On the way home from hunting she stopped at a farm and let her dog out, unleashed. As a bird dog, the dog was interested in the chickens (duh). She got angry and killed the next day her daughter was at school.

I know Republicans like some weird stuff, but that’s not normal.

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"The Guardian's article describes a section of Noem's book, set for release next month, in which she recounted shooting her dog after deciding it was “less than worthless” and “untrainable.”

In her account, Noem grabbed her gun and led the dog, named Cricket, to a gravel pit.

“It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done,” Noem wrote.

She then went on to kill a family goat, which she called “nasty and mean.” Noem also led the goat to a gravel pit, where she said her first shot wounded but did not kill the animal. She got another shell for her gun and killed the goat, according to the book.

Noem wrote that her daughter seemed confused when she came home from school, asking, “Hey, where's Cricket?”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/kristi-noem-defends-account-killing-dog-new-book-rcna149631

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Anonymous wrote:Did she ever have a Karen haircut?

Oh yeah, dontchuknow.

If your wife has this haircut, she will shoot your dog:

[Anonymous]

Somewhere Corey’s current side piece is saying, hide Muffy. I knew that ho was crazy!

[Anonymous]

A GWP pup averages $800 for less than 6 months old; as much as $1500 depending on the bloodlines. This a valuable hunting dog we are talking about. Any sportsman would snap one up in a hurry. As for “untrainable”…GWP are famous for being highly intelligent, high energy dogs. A fishing rod with a chicken wing
and several afternoons will usually suffice to bring out the pointing instinct. (If you don’t want to spoil the hunt, don’t bring a pup.).

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Her kid is named Kennedy?

Kristi, Kassidy, Kennedy....

KKK…hmmm….

[Anonymous]

have no problem with killing a terminally aggressive dog or goat. People do this in farming and hunting families but they don't talk about it in their books, at least not in that way. It's a sad event, and one to reflect on soberly about what you could have done better. It's true that domestic animals can get hostile. There are many courses of action available before shooting them.

The problem is that she's exploiting a violent action involving a gun to try and hit all the Republican MAGA pressure points about self-reliance, gun worship and offending the soft urbanites who flinch at the idea of taking care of business oneself. THAT is disrespectful to the real farm and hunting life.

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Anonymous wrote:
have no problem with killing a terminally aggressive dog or goat. People do this in farming and hunting families but they don't talk about it in their books, at least not in that way. It's a sad event, and one to reflect on soberly about what you could have done better. It's true that domestic animals can get hostile. There are many courses of action available before shooting them.

The problem is that she's exploiting a violent action involving a gun to try and hit all the Republican MAGA pressure points about self-reliance, gun worship and offending the soft urbanites who flinch at the idea of taking care of business oneself. THAT is disrespectful to the real farm and hunting life.

The dog was not “terminally aggressive”. Noem was just an idiot dog owner who had no clue about the breed and no patience to train it correctly.

[Anonymous]

Funny line: “Somehow, the dog escaped from the truck.” Seriously? (“Somehow, the dog escaped from the truck.”!). The dog could have been in an animal carrier in the bed of the truck, which a rich farm girl certainly could have afforded. Or, the dog could have been on a leash attached to its collar, and secured so that she didn’t run around between the governor’s legs as she was working the ickens gas pedal, the brake pedal, and the clutch. And why did the governor stop at all? And why did her neighbors have free range chickens running around in the open during pheasant season? There is a structure called a chicken coop. When padlocked, it keeps birds safe from weasels, ferrets, skunks, barn cats, foxes, and bird dogs who haven’t yet learned the difference between a chicken, a ruffed grouse, a waterfowl, and a pheasant. This looks like a case of humans who chose to blame a puppy for their faults. Not only that, but Governor Noem hunts her pen-raised pheasants on a game reserve ($$$), hunts her elk with 4 guides on a “Safari” that packs the elk out, guts it, skins it, arranges for a $20,000 trophy mount stuffed head, and butchers the meat for her, and goes to Satskatchewan with her niece to hunt Black Bear at $3,500 a person on a guided “Safari” where all the same work is done for her by the friendly guides, butchers, and taxidermists. That’s at least $50,000. So, this “out in the Midwest on rural farms we do things that sound horrible to you naive city slickers” horse manure is just that…horse manure. I grew up in the country where the two occupations were farming and deer poaching, and I know a few things about both. If Governor Noem runs a cattle operation, she knows a vet who comes out to vaccinate her stock and treat them when they are sick, and that vet knows how to put down a dog, a goat, and 3 horses humanely, and how to dispose of the carcasses so that coyotes aren’t attracted and diseases aren’t spread. Just leaving carcasses of dead animals at the bottom of a gravel pit that doesn’t belong to you is illegal in Texas, and probably in South Dakota too. Chronic Wasting Disease is all the way to the Canadian border now, and if there is a hoof-in-mouth disease outbreak, that’s gonna be a lot more hell to pay than a few dead chickens. Bottom line, there are a lot of city slickers who want to wear fluorescent pink on their camo that don’t know agricultural science, don’t know livestock, don’t know dogs, and can’t tell a shotgun from a rifle. Governor Noem is one of them. She should stick to Corey Lewandowski, and stay away from animals and firearms. She is Exhibit A as to why the Second Amendment applies to a well regulated militia like the Army Reserve and the National Guard. Keep your firearms locked up in a gun safe. Keep your ammunition locked up separately. Get a baseball bat for self defense, or else a K bar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
have no problem with killing a terminally aggressive dog or goat. People do this in farming and hunting families but they don't talk about it in their books, at least not in that way. It's a sad event, and one to reflect on soberly about what you could have done better. It's true that domestic animals can get hostile. There are many courses of action available before shooting them.

The problem is that she's exploiting a violent action involving a gun to try and hit all the Republican MAGA pressure points about self-reliance, gun worship and offending the soft urbanites who flinch at the idea of taking care of business oneself. THAT is disrespectful to the real farm and hunting life.

The dog was not “terminally aggressive”. Noem was just an idiot dog owner who had no clue about the breed and no patience to train it correctly.

I mean, she shot a goat for being a goat. So I think it's more than just a lack of patience.

[Anonymous]

She had to put down three horses at the same time? How likely is that? I guess pretty likely if your owner is a psychopath and you’re no longer convenient.

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This is a German Wirehair Pointer, not a Pit Bull. Pointers are not terminally aggressive. They are large dogs that want to work all day in the field, that are bred to point on a bird and hold the point until the hunter flushes the game, that are bred to retrieve the downed bird to the hunter with a soft mouth that doesn’t leave bite marks. 1/3 of Labradors are gunshy, but I’ve never heard of a GWP that was. You can read breeders online who won’t even sell pups unless they are going to hunt. With genes like those, you can bet the Breeder would take Cricket back, and if nothing else get 4 or 5 litters out of her. Governor Noem clearly heard someone praise GWP without realizing how much work they are, and got Cricket without investing the time and patience needed to train her. (She had 3–count them—3 kids, and didn’t realize who did have the time and patience and love to train her.) This is like a city slicker who shoots 3 times at a pheasant rooster and misses, and blames the shotgun for inaccuracy, and runs it over with a backhoe. Well, it’s always the poor workman who blames his tools, as we used to say on the farm, and when you point a finger you got 3 more pointing back at you, as we also used to say on the farm. I don’t get these country folk who make excuses for city slickers, instead of calling them out for what they are: lying sadistic conniving hypocritical wasteful con artists. South Dakota used to have fine people like the Non Partisan League, like George McGovern, like Tom Daschle. My grandmother came from South Dakota. She wouldn’t have been caught dead voting for drunks who kill people going 100 miles per hour and lying spendthrifts like Governor Noem. Maybe that’s why this country is going to hell in a hand basket. Shoot your dogs in the face, but don’t act like it makes you the salt of the earth. It makes you into worse thugs than Mexican migrants and inner city African Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a German Wirehair Pointer, not a Pit Bull. Pointers are not terminally aggressive. They are large dogs that want to work all day in the field, that are bred to point on a bird and hold the point until the hunter flushes the game, that are bred to retrieve the downed bird to the hunter with a soft mouth that doesn’t leave bite marks. 1/3 of Labradors are gunshy, but I’ve never heard of a GWP that was. You can read breeders online who won’t even sell pups unless they are going to hunt. With genes like those, you can bet the Breeder would take Cricket back, and if nothing else get 4 or 5 litters out of her. Governor Noem clearly heard someone praise GWP without realizing how much work they are, and got Cricket without investing the time and patience needed to train her. (She had 3–count them—3 kids, and didn’t realize who did have the time and patience and love to train her.) This is like a city slicker who shoots 3 times at a pheasant rooster and misses, and blames the shotgun for inaccuracy, and runs it over with a backhoe. Well, it’s always the poor workman who blames his tools, as we used to say on the farm, and when you point a finger you got 3 more pointing back at you, as we also used to say on the farm. I don’t get these country folk who make excuses for city slickers, instead of calling them out for what they are: lying sadistic conniving hypocritical wasteful con artists. South Dakota used to have fine people like the Non Partisan League, like George McGovern, like Tom Daschle. My grandmother came from South Dakota. She wouldn’t have been caught dead voting for drunks who kill people going 100 miles per hour and lying spendthrifts like Governor Noem. Maybe that’s why this country is going to hell in a hand basket. Shoot your dogs in the face, but don’t act like it makes you the salt of the earth. It makes you into worse thugs than Mexican migrants and inner city African Americans.

Well said.
MAGAs are so full of $hit.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a thing where I'm from. It's horrible, but it exists.

It's more responsible than dumping, either outside or at a shelter. Taking care of the problem rather than sticking someone else with it.

What problem? She couldn't afford dog food? She could keep the dog in her house.